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named from its leaves being of a dark red in 

 spring. This is a pretty, brilliant carmine rose, 

 with flowers rather small, and will probably, 

 when its character is more developed, prove to be 

 worthy a place in a good collection. Alice Leroy, 

 recently raised at Angers, that most favourable 

 of all climates for raising roses from seed, is of a 

 robust habit, giving full-sized double flowers, 

 rather a deep rose tinged with lilac. 



Anemone is a very distinct variety, with shoots 

 very slender and graceful; flowers bright pink, 

 petals incurved, much like those of some double 

 anemonies. Celina is, however, one of the very 

 best dark crimson moss roses we yet possess : its 

 foliage has a peculiarly dark glossy-green tint, 

 quite distinct; its flowers are large and double, 

 but not quite full to the centre ; colour very bril- 

 liant but deep crimson, in some seasons slightly 

 tinged with purple : this will most probably su- 

 persede the Luxembourg Moss, which only a few 

 years since, was our only deep-coloured moss 

 rose. Its habit is not quite so robust as that of 

 the latter, which in some soils is almost too much 

 so, making here shoots six feet in length in grow- 

 ing seasons. The Crimson Pompone, or Oscar 

 Foulard, raised from seed by M. Foulard of Le 

 Mans, is small, with flowers quite double ; colour, 

 red, tinged with purple: a pretty and distinct 

 rose. Helene Mauget, and Hortensia are quite 

 new roses, from that prolific parent the Luxem- 

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